Richard Wollheim has died. There’s an “obituary in the Guardian”:http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1078109,00.html from Arthur Danto, and Chris Brooke has “a relevant excerpt”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1368/weblog/2003_11_01_archive.html#106804985419728983 from Jerry Cohen’s “Future of a Disillusion”. Norman Geras has a “post on Wollheim’s paradox of democracy”:http://normangeras.blogspot.com/2003_11_02_normangeras_archive.html#106804463992397189 . I have pleasant memories of Richard Wollheim from my time at UCL where I went to read for the M.Phil in philosophy in 1981. He chaired the research seminars there and I remember him mainly as a benign presence who asked penetrating clarificatory questions in a very plummy voice. A sad loss.
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harry 11.05.03 at 9:54 pm
That is sad. I attended Wollheim’s (terrific) lectures on Hume as an undergrad in London, and was subsequently his colleague, for a year, when I taught at UC Davis (I never let on that he had taught me). He seemed a delighful man who knew how to enjoy life – and an admirable philosopher as well as a fine teacher.
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